"Jack Erbes" wrote in message
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As an aside to Franky's question, I have a related question for the
technically adept here.

Is a serial to USB adapter a two way device?

In other words, if had a GPS with a USB connector, could you use a
serial to USB adapter to connect it to a COM port?

No. The USB system is a master-slave system, where the computer is the
master (requires a lot of code and processing power to handle up to 127
slaves) and all connected devices are slaves. And slaves don't talk unless
they requested to talk by the master. A GPS with a USB port is a slave and
can therefore not initiate communications to other slaves.

Meindert